glove box
A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side,…A small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.
» Clean out the glove box.
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2 sensesA small compartment with a door on the dashboard of a car, usually on passenger side, used to store (and sometimes lock) items.
There's a map in the glovebox.
A plastic box or similar enclosure containing a controlled environment, with rubber gloves fastened around holes in the front of the box through which a person can manipulate things in the box without introducing outside contamination; an isolator.
Handschuhbox, Glove-Box
Examples
1 sentencesClean out the glove box.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
From glove + box.From glove + box.
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